I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.